How To Install hwdata on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwdata
on CentOS 7.
What is hwdata
hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids and usb.ids databases.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install hwdata
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwdata.
Install hwdata on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hwdata
using yum
by running the following command:
Install hwdata on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hwdata
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hwdata on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hwdata
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwdata
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.